For years, since the bankruptcy of the Nederlandse Scheepsbouw en Droogdok Maatschappij (NDSM, the Dutch Shipbuilding and Dry dock Company) in 1984, the NDSM Shipyard in the Northern part of Amsterdam stood abandoned. With the exception of the occasional flea market or show by the experimental theatre group Dogtroep, not much was happening on the [&hellip… →
NDSM Shipyard
Hip hop school
Hip-hop school Solid Ground Movement. From 2007 to 2009, Eva was the temporary business manager of Solid Ground Movement, the first hip-hop school and theatre workshop of Amsterdam focusing on quality, development, and hip-hop as an art form. It was started by Alida Dors and Bryan Druiventak, pioneers of the Dutch hip-hop culture and active [&hellip… →
Metabolic
Metabolic began in the Fall of 2012 with the mission to put sustainable development into practice. Metabolic had its first Amsterdam office in Eva de Klerk’s containers, which kept us thinking big and fueled our energy for catalyzing global systems change. We used the space primarily for meetings; the container city at NDSM had the uncanny ability to take [&hellip… →
Amsterdam’s Person of the year 2011
Eva was nominated ‘Amsterdammer of the year’ by the readers of Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool. Interview by Hans van der Beek, December 2011: Eva de Klerk (Amsterdam, 1965) is one of the founders of the incubator on grounds of the NDSM Shipyard. Since then, she helps thinking about fringe areas of cities all around the world, [&hellip… →